Public Safety Blotter: Feb. 24Jan. 22 At 1:38 a.m., police arrested a man on Simeonoff Street on suspicion of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth degree. At 2:46 a.m., police arrested two men on Marine Way for having open containers. At 4:07 a.m., a caller reported annoying dogs on Perez Way. It was quie...

Kodiak Island Births: Feb. 24Joni Lynn Campbell was born at 8:28 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, to Thomas Derrick Campbell and Kristy Aline Campbell. She weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and measured 19.25 inches long. Her parents are originally from Mississppi and Washington and now live in Kodiak. Her mother works at Coast Guard Ba...

Assembly identifies federal prioritiesThe Kodiak Island Borough Assembly designated their top federal program priorities and adopted a single project on their federal capital improvement program list. The lone project was the Kodiak landfill wastewater treatment plant. The borough is requesting $1,825,000 toward the $16 million proje...

Finance update, employee of the year at borough meetingThe Kodiak Island Borough Assembly got a finance department update and named construction inspector and engineer Dave Conrad as the borough’s employee of the year for 2014. “Dave works closely on two very busy projects, the Kodiak High School addition and renovation project and more closely on th...

Outdoor Kodiak: Getting started for halibutClose your eyes for a moment and imagine the taste of fresh halibut. Sweet, succulent, perhaps even faintly nutty. It’s hard to beat that first bite of the first fresh halibut of the year. Frozen halibut is terrific, and in fact it’s notable because it stands up so well to long term storage. But ...

Alumni update: Anthony helps lead UAA to track titleKodiak’s own Dylan Anthony helped secure the first Great Northwest Athletic Conference indoor track and field title in University of Alaska Anchorage history. The senior produced a pair of top-five finishes as the Seawolves finished six points ahead of runner-up Western Washington University Satu...